Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Coe, K.K., Neumeister, N., Gomez, M.I., Carvajal Janke, N. (2024) Carbon Balance: a technique to assess comparative photosynthetic physiology in poikilohydric plants. Applications in Plant Science (link)

Slate, M., Antoninka, A., Bailey, L., Berdugo, M.B. ,Callaghan, D.A., Cardenas, M., Chmielewski, M.W., Fenton, N.J., Holland-Moritz, H., Hopkins, S. ,Jean, M., Kraichak, B.E. , Lindo, Z. ,Merced, A., Oke, T., Stanton, D., Stuart, J.,Tucker, D. and Coe, K.K. (2024) Impact of changing climate on bryophyte contributions to terrestrial water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles. New Phytologist (link)

Coe, K.K., Carter, B., Slate, M., Stanton, D. (2024) Moss functional trait ecology: trends, gaps, and biases in the current literature. American Journal of Botany DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.16288 (link)

Antoninka, A., Chuckran, P.F., Mau, R.L., Slate, M.L., Mishler, B.D., Oliver, M.J., Coe, K.K., Stark, L.R., Fisher, K.M. and Bowker, M., (2022) Responses of biocrust and associated soil bacteria to novel climates are not tightly coupled. Frontiers in Microbiology, p.1177. (link)

Bowker, M.A., Rengifo-Faiffer, M. C., Antoninka, A., Grover, H., Coe, K.K., Fisher, K., Mishler, B., Oliver, M., Stark, L. (2021) Community composition influences ecosystem resistance and production more than species richness or intraspecific diversity. OIKOS 130 (8): 1399-1410 (link)

Carvajal Janke, N. and Coe, K.K.  (2021) Evidence for a fungal loop in shrublands. Journal of Ecology 109(4): 1842-1857 (link)

Silva, A.T., Gao, B., Fisher, K.M., Mishler, B.D., Ekwealor, J.T.B., Stark, L.R., Li, X., Zhang, D., Bowker, M.A., Brinda, J.C., Coe, K.K., Oliver, M. (2020) To dry perchance to live: insights from the genome of the desiccation-tolerant biocrust moss Syntrichia caninervis. The Plant Journal. (link)

Slate, M., Brinda, J., Coe, K.K., Greenwood, J. and Stark, L. R. (2020) Prehydration mitigates damage accrued from prolonged periods of desiccation in cultured shoot apices of Syntrichia ruralis. Journal of Bryology. 18: 1-12 (link)

Coe, K.K., Greenwood, J., Slate, M., Clark, T, Brinda, J., Fisher, K., Mishler, B., Bowker, M., Oliver, M., Ebrahimi, S., and Stark, L.R. (2020) Strategies of desiccation tolerance vary across life phases in the moss Syntrichia caninervis. American Journal of Botany. 108(2): 1-14 (link)

Coe, K.K., Howard, N., Slate, M., Butler, R., Greenwood, J., Bowker, M., Mishler, B., and Stark, L. (2019) Morphological and physiological traits in relation to carbon balance in a diverse clade of dryland mosses. Plant, Cell, and Environment. 42(11): 3140-3151 (link)

Deane-Coe, K.K., Sarvary, M.A., and Owens, T.G. (2017) Student performance along axes of scenario novelty and complexity in introductory biology: lessons from a unique factorial approach to assessment. CBE Life Science Education 16(1): article 3 (link)

Deane-Coe, K.K. & Stanton, D. (2017) Functional ecology of cryptogams: Scaling from bryophyte, lichen, and soil crust traits to ecosystem processes. New Phytologist 213(3): 993-995  (link)

Deane-Coe, K.K. & Sparks, J. P. (2016) Cyanobacteria associations in temperate forest bryophytes revealed by δ15N analysis. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 143(1): 50-57 (link)

Deane-Coe, K.K., Mauritz, M., Celis, G., Natali, S., Salmon, V., Crummer, K.G. & Schuur, E.A.G. (2015) Experimental warming alters productivity and isotopic signatures of tundra mosses. Ecosystems 18(6): 1070-1082  (link)

Coe, K.K. & Sparks, J. (2014) Physiology-based prognostic modeling of the influence of changes in precipitation on a keystone dryland plant species. Oecologia 176(4) 933-942 (link)

Coe, K.K. (2013) Ecology behind bars: a teaching garden cultivates free minds. Radical Teacher. 95: 56-60 (link)

*Reed, S., *Coe, K.K., Sparks, J., Zelikova, T.J., and Belnap, J. (2012) Changes to dryland rainfall result in rapid moss mortality and altered soil fertility. Nature Climate Change 2: 752-755 *dual 1st authorship (link)

Coe, K.K., Belnap, J. & Sparks, J. (2012). Precipitation-driven carbon balance controls survivorship of desert biocrust mosses. Ecology 93(7): 1626-1636 (link)

Coe, K.K., Belnap, J., Grote, E. & Sparks, J. (2012) Physiological ecology of the desert moss Syntrichia caninervis after ten years exposure to elevated CO2: evidence for enhanced photosynthetic thermotolerance. Physiologia Plantarum 144(4): 346-356 (link)

Review Articles and Book Chapters

Stanton, D. and Coe, K.K. (2021) 500 million years of charted territory: Functional ecological traits in bryophytes. Bryophyte Diversity and Evolution 43(1): 234-252 (link)

Seppelt, R.D., Dowling, A.J., Deane-Coe, K.K., Ming, Z.Y. & Jing, Z. (2016) Bryophytes within biological soil crusts. In: Biological Soil Crusts: A structuring principle in dryland regions. Bettina Weber, Burkhard Buedel & Jayne Belnap, Eds. Ecological Studies, Springer Verlag

Chen, K.C., Sarvary, M., Ptak, C., and Deane-Coe, K.K. (2015) Exploring how limiting nutrients affect primary production. In: M. Sarvary, Ed. Investigative Biology: A Laboratory Text. Hayden McNeill. p. 49-93

Coe, K.K., Sparks, J. & Belnap, J. (2013) Ecophysiology of soil crust mosses in dryland systems. In Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration: Photosynthesis of Bryophytes and Early Land Plants. David Hanson & Steve Rice, Eds. Govindjee & Sharkey, Series Eds. Springer, Dordrecht.

Popular Science Articles and Field Guides

Welsh, S. G., and K. K. Coe. (2024) Mosses and Liverworts of the Altona Flat Rock: A Field Guide to the Bryophytes of Altona, New York. Middlebury Biology Department, Middlebury, VT. Spiral-bound copy available upon request. (Welsh & Coe AFR Bryophyte Field Guide v3)

Coe, K.K. (2008). How will climate change impact forest floor bryophyte communities? The Spruce Moose Newsletter Fall 2008 (SUNY ESF Adirondack Ecological Center Publication)

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